MOSCOW, December 22 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has sentenced ex-head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media (Rospechat) and one of the founders of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, Boris Mironov, to a 100,000-ruble fine ($1,600) for extremism, the court’s spokesperson Yunona Tsareva told RAPSI on Thursday.

The court began hearing the criminal case against Mironov in July.

Mironov was charged with making calls for forced regime change. Prosecutors claimed that the defendant in his book “Battle against Jewish Yoke” had intentionally incited readers to armed rebellion, hatred of the Jewish people and sought to dismantle the Russian statehood.

The abovementioned book written by Mironov has prompted initiation of the case against him. Russian publishing house “Algoritm” has issued about 2,000 copies of the book.